Austin’s Plastic Bag Ban a Colossal Failure – This article discusses why Austin’s Bag Ban failed to achieve its primary objective to reduce the amount of carryout shopping bags dumped into the landfill and the cost of the bag ban to Austin residents.

Bag Bans Waste of Time & Money – This article discusses the small impact a bag ban has on litter and cost consumers a disproportionate amount of money. A waste of time and money when traditional litter abatement methods are more effective and less costly.

The California Plastic Bag Ban Scam – a new article that exposes the methods used by bag banners to push for bag bans at the local and state level through deceitful scheming, lies and distortions, backroom deals, one-sided media, and politicians succumbing to a heavy dose of political correctness.

Why You Should Oppose Bag Bans – This article discusses from a philosophical point of view why you should oppose bag bans and the implications that bag bans have on personal freedom and liberty.

A Case For The Repeal of Bag Bans – This article shows that consumers have been saddled with an inconvenient, inefficient, and costly method to carry groceries home rather than a convenient, efficient, and economical method.

Referendum Puts Bag Banners on Defensive – An article that shows that the referendum process is as American as Apple Pie and designed for orderly governance and preservation of civil rights and liberty for all.

Bag Bans – Trading One Problem For Another – This article looks at how a plastic bag litter problem that did not affect you in your personal life becomes an “in your face” problem you have to deal with each time you shop.

Using Reusable Bags Not That Easy – This article looks at the challenges families face when using reusable bags and that despite bag banners saying that using reusable bags is easy it turns out not to be that easy but an inconvenience to be avoided.

Paper Bag Fee Setting A Bad Precedent – This is an article that looks at tax issues around the paper bag fee including sales tax issues and court rulings regarding the paper bag fee as an end around California’s Proposition 26.

How To Fight Back Against Bag Bans – This is a new article that answers the difficult question of what can we do to fight back against plastic bag bans. And provides a number of suggested actions.

Plastic Bag Recycling Rate – A Non-Issue – This article exposes the truth about the 5% plastic bag recycling rate and why that recycling rate is so low and why the low recycling rate is not a reason to ban plastic carryout bags.

Bag Bans – Market Driven Solutions Superior – This article looks at bag bans, some of the thinking behind them, and that the government mandated solution is part of a managed economy rather than a free economy locking inadequate and failed solutions in place.

Bag Bans: A Failure – Not Success As Claimed – This article examines how well bag bans live up to the stated objectives. There are five key objectives common to all bag bans that are widely publicized in Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs). A critical look at all five objectives shows that results are marginal if not outright failure. This is a must read.

San Jose Bag Ban Report Rebuttal – This article is a critical analysis of San Jose Bag Ban litter reduction results and claims of success by the City of San Jose. The report identifies the cost to citizens of San Jose and the failure of the city to do a reasonable analysis.

Bag Bans Wrong Way To Control Litter – This article talks about the negative impact to the environment, the impact on landfills, the cost to local jurisdictions, and the cost to the public. The article concludes that hiring people to pick up 100% of litter is a much better solution than just banning bags that eliminates only 0.6% of litter.

Bag Bans Officials Neglect Homework – This article discusses how officials neglect to do due diligence when passing a bag ban that forces residents to adopt the green lifestyle even though they have a right not to.

Reusable Bags and Ergonomic Issues – This article examines ergonomic issues related to reusable bags and risk of injury from lifting and handling reusable bags that can weigh more than the plastic bags they replace.

Campbell Initiative Press Release – This is the press release about an initiative that has been filed to amend the Campbell Municipal Code to prohibit carryout bag bans and fees and would overturn any laws passed prior to the vote by the public.

Plastic Bag Bans and Third World Countries – This is an article that talks about flooding in Bangladesh blamed on plastic bags to show there were other contributing factors that were more directly responsible than just plastic bags.

Response to BEACON Draft And Final EIR – This article is a collection of letters submitted in response to the Draft and Final Environmental Impact Report for a plastic bag ban in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.

Is A Plastic Carryout Bag Ban Justified – This article discusses the fact that other projects to eliminate trash and plastic bags in waterways are successful and that a ban on plastic carryout bags is not required.

Shopping Will Cost More With Plastic Bag Ban – This article discusses the cost of supplying plastic bags to the shopper and the costs to the shopper after a bag ban. The article discusses various strategies to keep costs down.

Landfill And Recycling Impacts – Using bag quantities from the BEACON Environmental Impact Report and some other data show the impact of a bag ban on both recycling and landfills for the proposed ordinance and each of the alternatives.

Fact Sheet – Landfill Impacts – An older article about the landfill impacts of a bag ban that shows that for every ton of plastic bags before the ban will be replaced by more than three tons of plastic bags, paper bags, reusable bags, replacement bags, and other plastic.